Sections of Hiawatha are being worked on overnight in July. This was probably a safety test of some gate arms. It's cool that you'd like somebody fired because you had to wait five minutes and automatically assumed incompetence was the reason you were delayed. You were directed to call 911 for a reason, because after business hours, 911 becomes the main route to deal with these problems. The fact that you chose not do do this nor leave a message is on you. Instead you want to bitch at somebody and demand satisfaction for five minutes you had to wait in your car, life s so unfair sometimes.

I've been fly fishing the metro hard for the last several years and I've come to really appreciate carp as a great game fish. I live by lake nokomis which I consider my home water. If you feel like taking on a third, I'm itching to wet a line, but haven't seen any open water worthwhile. I could repay the favor with some muskie tips. Ive only seen a few fly fishers around these parts, so it would be nice to trade notes.

If you want acess to the lake near Duluth, you'll probably pay a premium price. But, there are options as ihrtgngr suggested. Deer season is in November, so if you're only coming up for summers, you will miss the hunt. As far as basements go, the area is rocky, depending on the lot, it may quite expensive to dig a basement. If you only want a summer home, a basement may be unnecessary.

Call The Great Lakes Fly Shop. John Fehnel is the owner, he'll know everything you want to find out. I would also stop by the shop on your way through Duluth to see what the run looks like and pick up a few flies. You won't regret it.

Even if you work in the area, and if you had time, it would be worth popping in. Hearing from an employee of of a company in the district does make an impact. It brings a different perspective that's often overlooked.

On a technical point, this could be a sales tax. If you choose not to consume the taxed items, you won't have to pay. The sales tax would apply to CTIB counties, which include Hennepin, Anoka, Washington, Dakota, and Ramsey. With infrastructure improvements that cost billions, it would be impossible to levy a higher tax against specific cities and expect these things to get built, there's simply not enough density.

On a purely philosophical note, I would argue that it's in your best interest to pay and to advocate for transportation investments. Transit encourages development, brings people into the city to spend money, takes cars of the road, and increases access to employment opportunities. If you believe that these things are desirable, then a world without them is undesirable. Due to the realities of financing, a sales tax is the quickest and most utilitarian route to creating a world where a complete transit system exists. Everybody pays, everybody benefits. Creating a system where some pay, but everybody benefits creates a free rider problem, which becomes pretty unfair in the long run.

There are multiple plans in the works to build out a more complete regional transit system. For the metro area, the counties transit improvement board is leading this process. We can do a regional build over the course of a decade, which would include a several more LRT and BRT routes. BUT, it would require $4-$6 billion in new revenue to build and operate. This can be done by raising the current 1/4 cent transit sales tax to 3/4 cent. However, this would add to the already high Minneapolis/Hennepin County sales tax (especially in the downtown district). This would also require permission from the State Legislature to allow counties to raise the transit tax. Considering that the legislature denied bonding money for Southwest LRT last year, shows you the depth of the GOP's will to improve transit.

A lot can be done to improve the system and there are a lot of plans already available, but the political will is missing. I attribute this to the fact that the State (read state legislature) has so much control over transit funding. When you have people making decisions on light rail funding that have never been on a light rail train nor on a public bus, the importance of transit is lost to them. Rather than being thought of as a public necessity to increase our competitiveness, transit is seen as social engineering. This is why Southwest is languishing as well as any momentum to improving the system overall. Ideology is killing progress and innovation.

older cars are just easier to break into. i had an 88 pathfinder that got stolen twice without ever having a window smashed. luckily, the thieves could not handle the particular nuances of my vehicle and abandoned it only blocks away both times.

often these thefts are just some poor soul trying to get from point a to point b and your car was the easiest option. i would still punch the dude in the face, but he took the easiest opportunity available.

if you get it back and decide to keep it, use a steering wheel lock, it's a pain in the ass, but effective.

While the Forum is a private business, it also purports itself to be a community institution. People are upset with this for a few reasons: 1) the paper is refusing to announce a wedding to the broader community solely based on their politics; 2) the paper is refusing the couple's business/money also based on politics. Since the marriage and money are both legal, what the paper is actually saying to the couple is that the couple is not good enough for their union to be announced to the community and their money is not good enough to take. Whatever your stance on gay marriage, such judgement is at its base prejudiced and deserves to be talked about.

Yeah, i wouldn't be trying to chunk this out by geography, the sample size gets too small to be meaningful. Also, an interesting methodological point to make: LAN lines were the primary communication tool. While an attempt was made to include cell phones, the primary survey respondent was a LAN line user, which generally skews age, race, and income demographics away from what you would find in a truly random sample. A lot of surveys nowadays are going back to mailing questionnaires to deal with this problem. If it's not a mailed survey, the numbers are generally a little off because there are a lot of households that are cell phone only and cannot be reached by pollsters - namely, younger households and households of color.